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- Hello?

Hello?

Sir?

Sir?

- Hello, come out here.

- Uncertain, It's not on the way to anywhere.

You've either got to know where you are going

or be lost to find it.

Being located on the Louisiana-Texas border

tends to be an area where persons with

criminal histories or problems with the law

will tend to migrate to,

to get away from other jurisdictions.

In other words, people who are running from something

in Louisiana would like to run into Texas

and use the state line as kind of a barrier

to protect themselves from being arrested in Louisiana.

So or running from anywhere,

Uncertain's a good place to hide

because as I said it's just down in the middle of nowhere.

- If you live in Uncertain, you retire at 21.

Which means that, once you turn 21

there's nothing for you to do out here.

I mean, you are gonna be drinking

at those bars religiously.

If you can break out of that cycle

and just fight your way out and get somewhere else,

you'll be able to get your feet on the ground,

and build up from there.

Yay, beer!

There's not a lot of new faces.

Even if you got a job in this town, there's no women.

All the girls have all moved off and got married.

The ones that do come down here,

better get there first, you know.

- Zach, are you ready to sing?

You gonna give me the name you wanna sing?

- Umm.

- You don't know yet?

- Dunno yet.

- All right, All My Loving, Darling?

- All My Loving.

♪ Close your eyes and I'll kiss you

♪ Tomorrow I'll miss you

♪ Remember I'll always be true

♪ Do, do, doo, do, doo

- You do realize that you look like Peg Bundy

with that cigarette hanging from your mouth

- That's quite all right.

- Aww, I've got to wash my hands.

- Well, wash your hands, honey.

- OK, your mama's not lookin', you want some?

Good girl.

Me and my girlfriend,

we're both in recovery.

So we figured this was a good place

to kinda get away from everything.

And you know, we've been able to make a life together

that's just beyond anything we ever dreamed.

People say, you're a little obsessed with hogs.

It's being in an environment, you know, and doing things

that I did prior to becoming a drug addict.

And it was a re-connection with

my Native American ancestry.

It's something to, hold on to.

Early this morning, we got our first,

sighting, of Mr Ed.

There's the profile, you see that long snout?

That's him, I can pause it.

Mr Ed, the hog with the horse's head.

You know, that's not just any hog, you know.

That's the big one out here.

This is his territory now

and til he either dies of old age or somebody kills him,

I don't think there's another boar out here

big enough to run him out.

So we need to kill him,

not only for the food and everything else,

but once we get him out then that'll bring other animals in.

Well.

- Johnson's Ranch.

OK, which cabin are you wanting?

How many people do you have?

- How far you going down?

- I'm still going, I ain't gonna go far

but I'm going somewhere.

- What are they catching now, yellow bellies?

- On minnows or jigs?

- Really?

- Yellow Bass?

- White Perch?

Now you can catch 25 with no size limit.

Well, it's not hard to stay legal.

You're on the straight and narrow now aren't you?

- When you're young but it's gonna catch up with you.

- Boy it's a nice cool morning.

Well that vegetation's got a lot of

the back parts of the lake swallowed up.

- I heard that it,

the whole way it started was that it was a plant

that people bought for their fish tanks.

And when they threw it out, it ended up, you know,

working its way to the lake.

- Always risky business, playing with Mother Nature.

No, it's put us on a limited lifetime I think.

- Yeah, cause if the lake turns into a,

island per se, there ain't nothing to do.

There's no reason for people to come.

I mean, they waited until it was so bad

and then they really sprayed it

but it just killed what you see.

It's not, and then it sinks.

And then it takes up the bottom of the lake.

So I don't know.

- Well.

This is Mother Nature's favorite place.

Heaven and home, and a little bit of hell too.

It's heartbreaking to know the only place like this

is going away if they don't figure out something,

and I don't see a solution.

It's already affecting the fishing big time.

It's just getting worse.

There's no oxygen so there's no fish.

I see the beginning of the end with this stuff.

The raccoon came to us in a kid's hand.

He was a couple inches long.

Two weeks after we got him he opened his eyes,

raised all our dogs,

he's a wonderful part of our lives.

He's not a pet, he lives outside every day,

comes in at night and plays with the dogs

and eats his groceries at the end of my bed.

And I play with him a little bit and then he goes his way,

right before the sun comes up.

- The thing about Texas is it allows

convicted felons to hunt, with rifles

that are either replicas, curios

or were produced before the year 1899.

It would be illegal for me to own anything else.

They could give me 10 years

for having these rifles in Louisiana.

Texas doesn't care.

You ain't got to run faster than the hog.

You just got to run faster than the slowest person.

The hog is over there.

God damn it, what happened?

Fuck, he just ran off.

God damn it.

Mr. Ed, that son of a bitch.

That's one lucky fucking pig.

And he's smart too, he ran off when he heard that click.

He'll be back.

Mr. Ed is a smart pig.

He knows we're hunting him up there.

That's what this area here was about,

was to get it where, where somewhere he doesn't expect us.

So every time you make a step

and you give up your hand, you've educated him.

He's just a monster and he's a super aggressive animal.

- Living down here I tell myself don't dream,

that's not how you're gonna be happy in life,

and I kind of pushed my dreams aside.

My mom raised us weird.

We were just born to be weirdos.

Whatever we wanted to do, we were into it.

She had a meltdown.

She just got depressed one night,

she says she's got dynamite and she's about to end it all.

I was talking with my neighbor and she was like,

the best thing to do is have the police

do a welfare checkup on her.

So I had that done

but because of that they carried her off to the hospital

to see what was wrong with her.

So now I live here with my cats

and my 360.

I'm not the big hunter or fisherman, that's all my brother.

- Bear and Son, they discontinued this gentleman's Bowie.

That is a fucking knife, I mean that's 125.

- Zach, leave the knife alone before you hurt yourself.

- Sure.

A lot of people will ask me,

well Zach, what are you gonna do

if they ever come up with a cure?

But if they did ever come up with a cure,

I'm not gonna get it removed,

I'm just gonna get a thin red X across there.

Just so people know, I had it

but now the day has come that it's cured.

Just a thin red X, like that.

But yeah, that's just kind of my diabetes tattoo.

- I value what I have today, you know, and who I am today.

And inter-personal relationships, they start to heal.

As evident with, you know me hunting with my son again,

you know, or him even being in my employ again.

You done?

Isaiah, are you done?

- I've probably used the word dad

probably only called him that like three times

in my entire life.

There was no father, son relationship.

You know, we had threesomes with women together.

Instead of teaching me how to play catch with a baseball

he taught me how to cook dope.

He's been to prison so many times,

I think he's done about 13 years.

- There was a kid that owed me a bunch of money.

My sister had died of a heroine overdose,

a few days before.

And, I wanted to go to her funeral

which was in Utah and you know my parents,

at the time, knew how strung out I was,

they didn't want me there.

And, so I went over to this kid's house,

ready to do battle, you know,

strike fear in the heart of your enemy.

- We shaved his head into a Mohawk and

I painted war paint on his face,

and we took a brick hammer

and tied a leather strap around it

and we took a hay bailing hook

and wrapped it to his hand as well,

so it couldn't be yanked out.

- And I pounded on his door in the middle of the night

ready to attack him to get my money.

- So we hear tch-tch

and my father goes, you know what that is?

And I'm like, yeah.

And he literally flew back about ten feet.

- It was like being hit in the chest

with a sledgehammer, it was like somebody taking

a red hot poker and shoving it into you.

- Get him in the car and I ask him,

what do you wanna do?

If you go to hospital the cops are gonna get involved.

What do you wanna do?

And he's like, take me to the hospital.

- It went through my arm there, and it came out there,

blew all that meat out

and then I took another one in the chest.

It went through my gallbladder,

through my liver and into my intestines

and it ran up behind my lung

over here, somewhere by my heart.

When I showed up he just assumed

I was there to kill him, which I, you know,

I can't say I was or I wasn't.

But you know, I would have shot me, too, you know?

You know any normal human being would say,

man, you know, I was shot,

would, that's enough, would quit doing drugs, you know?

Just go ahead and cock it, and pull that primer off of it.

Make sure you point it in a safe direction when you do.

And stab it down there as hard as you can.

And then twist it, about four twists, five,

until it gets tight.

There you go.

If it twists, let it turn.

Let it turn as it comes.

Come on. - It's letting go.

- No it's not.

The bullet's right there, the bullet's right there.

- I see it.

- Lift your arms.

You're gonna get any of these sweat glands.

When I was a kid, I was probably ten or eleven,

I was sitting in my living room

where I lived with my father and

my stepmother had a parrot

and they had it in a cage on top of the piano

across the room, and I was pumping shells

through a shotgun because it had been jamming.

And I pumped it, and that son of a bitch went off.

And it come about a foot away from killing the parrot.

Blew a big hole in the wall above the piano.

So I hung a picture over it.

They never knew until they moved.

Found this big hole in the fucking wall.

- Johnson's Ranch.

Yeah, we're still here.

If the lake dies, the town dies.

Until the fish start biting people aren't gonna come down.

I had some people in Lubbock calling

and saying that Caddo's impassable.

So then they change their vacation plans

and those last minute vacations

we would be having right now,

aren't coming.

You gotta be patient, Henry.

- Your patience running short?

- Yeah, it is pretty peaceful here in the mornings.

Just me and the weevils, you know, and the salvinia.

Under lab conditions the plant can double

its leaf number in three days,

it can make itself into forty square miles in three months.

Very hardy plant, difficult to kill.

You can go out there with sprays and three months later

it'll look like you were never there.

The weevil has turned out to be

the only actual effective bio control for salvinia.

The adults feed on the buds and leaves

and the larvae bore in the rhizomes.

So together that really does a lot of damage.

It's a big undertaking.

Bio control would need to be done on a scale

which has not been done before.

A lot of people just simply don't like the idea,

or the expense or whatnot, but the question is

what are the options?

It's gonna take pretty much everybody,

and it's gonna take some unity and

we're all in the same boat.

The lake and the town of Uncertain,

which pretty much relies on the lake, you know,

is relying on the weevils.

- He's down.

That motherfucker's down.

There's so much smoke I can't see shit right now.

Recoil caught me in the head.

Yeah, he's down there.

Lets get that fucking hog.

I don't see a spot of blood,

which is pretty unusual.

I don't see any blood.

I think we're walking around in circles now.

No other hog could be that goddamn lucky, you know.

You know, Molly is a,

is a better chance of finding it than anything you know.

She's hunted down a couple of dead hogs already.

So she knows what the game is.

Where's that pig at, Molly, where's that pig?

I'm sure he hit the ground last night.

But it wouldn't be the first time that I've shot one

and they've showed back up with bullets in 'em.

He's got nine lives, he's hard to kill.

♪ Let me lick you up

♪ Let me lick you down

♪ Turn around babe

♪ Let me lick you all around

♪ Let me lick you girl

♪ Like your lover should

- Good Morning.

Good morning!

- Mornin'.

- Amen.

The Lord is in his holy temple

with all the others by his side.

Give us this day,

♪ Give us this day

- Our daily bread.

♪ Our daily bread

- And forgive us our trespasses.

♪ And forgive us our trespasses ♪

- As we forgive those

♪ As we forgive those

- Who trespass against us.

- Hello world of the internet and YouTube,

and most likely my friends and family

who wanted to see what this project was all about.

Well, second day of sobriety.

Kudos to me on, well, not really it's only two days.

Fuckin', I'll go two days

when I'm just too poor to buy a beer.

All my money went to booze and none of it

went to paying off the people I owed.

And, it's got to the point, my phone is shut off

cause I can't afford to pay that

cause the work's been so slow.

My, haven't had Netflix in forever.

Um, haven't been able to pay off Medtronics

which I really need to 'cause they're gonna shut me off

and stop, you know, sending me supplies.

Fuck, I'm just gonna sit around here,

fuckin' whack off,

eat beans,

and

yeah, play Minecraft.

You think you got drinking under control,

and then drinking gets the best of you.

It just, it'll put its boot on your throat.

What Doctor Logan said was um,

well, if I continue the way I am

I'll be on dialysis by thirty and dead by thirty-six.

I really want to quit drinking,

but there's a whole nother person inside of me.

I fight with him you know, all the time.

Hello.

♪ Go pick up my lady

- You gonna be at the house today?

- Yeah.

- OK, I'll be down there, man.

I'll be on down there, man.

- No you don't.

- No, she ain't coming today.

♪ When I'm in the mood

♪ My old man is not

♪ I toss and turn

♪ Yearn and burn

♪ But can't sleep when I'm hot

- When he's around her he's always wanting

to borrow money off people.

I mean, at first he had a giddy in his step

and he seemed really good

and then all of sudden when he was maxed out

with borrowing from people

and everybody started cutting him off,

he just went downhill quick.

I think it is a lot of stress running up there.

The stress of needing money.

I need money, I need money."

And I think when he's down here

he don't have all that stress.

I try to enforce that by telling him

he needs to come and check on me.

He needs to come you know,

I need you down here helping me in the morning.

And until she came in, he did, every morning.

He has breakfast and coffee with me

and usually he'll hang out down here at the dock

and talk with me and stuff,

and it stays that way for a while.

- I don't have any idea.

I, I don't know.

And I ask him, is it because her first name is Mary?

He was like, no, no.

I said, cause I know she don't hold a candle to my mama.

And I said she don't care anything about you.

Yes she do, she just don't show it.

I said, she don't care a thing about you, nothing.

And she don't mind telling nobody, you either,

that she don't give a damn about him.

And she told my sister, yeah as long as he,

as long as he got some money I'm gonna take it.

I'm goin' to get it.

He got it, I'm gonna get it.

You know so, I don't know.

- I got some, some great intel

on that hog last night.

He's been there the last two nights.

As much as I hate to say it,

I've been outsmarted by this hog many times.

He tracked me out of the woods

last time I walked out of here.

So he is letting me know that he knows

that I'm here, and this is his territory.

To get above that scent, we needed to bring the tower on up.

I've kind of got to know this guy, man.

And I'll tell you what, he has no enemies

in these woods except for me.

You know, and he knows that.

So like, then you kill your adversary then what do you do?

- What was that noise?

- Alien abduction, I don't fuckin' know.

That was kind of strange a noise, man.

It sounded almost mechanical.

- Hell. - What the fuck is that?

- We don't know, it's a UFO.

- Damn.

You've said you've seen some weird things, though.

- I have seen some really weird stuff out in those woods.

That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

- What's this flashing light here?

- That's a tower back in the distance.

- That's just a reflection.

- That ain't a reflection, Charlie.

There's nothing out there for it to reflect on.

A series of lights just descending out of the sky.

Hovering around.

- It's like, shoot at it or something?

I don't know, you might not want to shoot at it?

- Have a good look at it with the scope.

- Yeah, I guess so

but I have no idea what the hell that was.

There's no explanation for it.

Except I haven't seen the hog

since that thing showed up so,

- Maybe they took it with them?

- That's what I think,

- They make their own cochon de lait.

- Yeah they, they took my pig.

And I'm wondering if it might not

been even invisible to the naked eye.

That the only thing that picked it up

was the infra-red beam, you know?

I mean that's real possible.

Come on, come on.

We need hog pictures.

Frogs.

Probably see a raccoon party here pretty soon.

- We need to have some kind of plan of action.

We need to put this much money towards spraying,

put this much money towards weevils.

We need to get the state of Texas onboard

so we can make things move.

- Now, we would all like it to just, go away, OK.

It's not happening.

- From the larvae to ready to eat,

ready to do their job, what kind of time period

are we looking at on the weevils?

- Larvae to adult stage is six weeks.

So, when they lay eggs and their offspring

start laying eggs, the numbers can go up really quickly.

The weevils are, they're two millimeters

to three and a half millimeters.

I would say that we probably need a billion and a half.

To actually take care of this problem,

now I'm just winging it you know,

that it would probably take a couple of million dollars.

- That's what I'm doing is getting the

fuck out of Uncertain.

That's the grand plan,

cause it's just too much.

Your brain explodes and you're upset

and you're screaming and hollering

and, yeah, that's why I say I had to get out of this town.

Sometimes shit feels hopeless but you gotta remember

to remind yourself, it's only hopeless

if you're not trying.

You know the theists will tell you,

you know you're strong when you,

put all your problems in the Lord's hand,

or Lord's Hands, and then in the same breath

they tell you, um, what is it?

The lord acts through you.

So what you're saying is,

just have faith in yourself and you can get shit done.

You know, no but you need to ask God for his help.

He says he's not gonna help you in the Bible,

what the fuck are you talking about?

I wanna see if I can get that waffle maker

to go with me as well, to Austin.

Cause, that fucking waffle maker's legit.

And it don't take a lot to make waffles.

You can throw everything in there.

Frickin' bacon,

you can make brownies out of a waffle maker.

is it gonna work?

I just know it's gonna be epic.

It's not, it's just gonna be a total change.

That'll keep the insulin cool.

- The day that they integrated,

a lot of the people here,

the black families, they got upset with him

because he sent us to school.

And he told them, he said,

I'm sending my kids to school to learn

I'm not caring about all this other stuff.

They need, they gonna learn.

- What's the name again?

- Zach Warren.

I'm a little nervous, cause I know

something's gonna go wrong, I just know it.

But I'm also glad, just feels good to say

that I'm gettin' out of here, I'm making a change

that's gonna help me in the long run.

All right.

Jesus Christ on a stick.

What's up man?

Yeah, this one?

I forgot which one.

I thought it was that one down there.

How's it goin'?

Carlos, he's deaf.

And then I have not caught the other guys' names.

They're all also deaf and they have a lot of deaf friends.

You know it's kind of hitting me all of a sudden,

well you're in Austin.

And it's that do or die kind of thing.

Awesome, if you know my application online gets mixed in,

it's Zach Warren.

I mean, in case, you know.

- Zach Warren.

- And I just want to say,

I do have like lawn care experience, a lot of it actually.

- OK. - So,

working in the hot Texas sun does not bother me.

- All right.

- It's gonna have to be by the end of the week

or by the start of next week to have a job.

I spent my $100.

I got beans and I got spam, and I can make that last.

Insulin supplies' good.

Enough Medtronics to last me forty days.

- He like that song

♪ My baby can't stand no cheatin'

♪ My baby can't stand no

- My baby don't stand no cheatin'.

- My baby, sing it for me, sing, sing it Henry.

♪ My baby, true little baby

That's it.

- Sing, let me hear you sing, sing Henry.

- Sing Mr. Henry!

- I can't sing it all the way through.

- What you say mom?

♪ My baby don't stand no cheatin' ♪

- A friend baby, F-R-I-E-N-D.

- He'll be a good man for somebody,

but I'm too young for Mr. Henry, I'm still in my forties.

- How old is Henry?

- 74.

- Henry's children run his life.

When you got your children runnin' your life,

you ain't never gonna get a woman.

- I'm telling you the truth.

- They run your life.

- They tell him what to do.

- And how they're better than me.

They go to cry, they cry.

So I ain't got time to raise kids.

I got a grand baby right there, a knee baby,

I got my mamma to raise.

- He's back in brute force strength.

Five P's for hunting:

planning, preparation,

persistence, patience and shot placement.

And we got all four, but we didn't get the last one.

So, if you don't get all five,

you just enjoy your walk in the woods.

They build those webs in one night man.

Pretty incredible.

He's smiling at you, you see that?

It doesn't matter what form of life it is,

everything fights for its life.

So that tells me that

there is some form of a conscious.

Otherwise what are they fighting for?

- Yeah, we fished a lot together.

- Is Frog still living?

- He died, and there was the guy that works here.

What was his name?

He died!

- A black guy.

- Yeah, he died.

- And his sister, you remember Sissy?

Is she still living?

- Sissy, Sissy.

- They called her Sissy or something like that, his sister.

- For it is better if the will of God be so,

that he suffer from well doing, than from evil doing.

- Amen

- May the Lord have a blessing on the doer

of His most holy work.

♪ Jesus keep

♪ Me near that cross

♪ There's a precious fountain

♪ Free too all

♪ A healing stream

- There was a bench, I can't find it.

I don't know where it's at, I'll find it.

Here it is.

Michael Wayne Smith

- Mr. Smith, my name is Officer Webb,

I'm from the DWI unit. - Yes ma'am.

- Tonight you were involved in a two car

major accident at Bert Kouns and Newcastle.

- OK, is that, I mean is that a fact

or was there a third car involved?

Because I'm not sure if somebody came, knocked me around.

- Hey, was there a third car or two cars?

Just two cars. - Two, OK.

- Just two cars. - Allegedly, OK.

- Um, just two cars.

The person, the driver of the other vehicle

is um, critically injured.

- Yes sir. I mean, yes ma'am, I'm sorry.

- He's at LSU right now in treatment.

Um, Louisiana officers did detect

you have alcohol on your breath and person.

You were transferred in here by Officer Skinner.

I'm gonna read this form to you.

This is the Louisiana Department of Public Safety

and Corrections Office of state police.

You are under arrest by a law enforcement officer

who has reasonable grounds to believe

you are driving a vehicle or watercraft while intoxicated.

The law now requires you to submit to.

- I was in full-blown addiction.

I was living asleep.

All I really experienced at that time in my life,

was um, you know, my needs, my wants

and how do I go about making that happen.

You know, what have I gotta do

to get you to do what I want to do?

- What type of vehicle were you in?

- A Ford Bronco.

- Were you the driver of that vehicle?

- Yes, ma'am.

- Did you have any passengers?

- You know, when I made that left hand turn,

I didn't, I didn't see him.

- If you blow a .10 grams-percent or higher,

then that's you're gonna be charged with D-W-I.

Make it tight around that mouthpiece, and blow.

You gotta blow hard.

Blow like you're blowing up a balloon.

Blow, you're not blowing hard enough.

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow,

blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, stop.

- I searched for this for two weeks

before I found him the first time.

I don't know what else to do except

try to live a better life.

Not to be that man

that ran into that kid that night.

Enough people showed me value.

Enough people showed me love.

Enough people showed me

that I wasn't this horrible human being

who had taken this life.

And I worked with this.

I did, I worked with it.

Until, there came a night where I

actually slept through the night,

for the first time in years and years and years.

- I couldn't afford to get new supplies

because I was pretty much without work for a month.

I was tore up, throwing up, just kidneys hurtin'.

Could barely walk without having trouble breathing.

Just a whole mess of pain.

A lot of people take, you know,

what they have for granted.

I wonder, you know, am I gonna be here, in ten years?

Am I gonna afford to?

Every day is a fight, you know.

What all does the um, what do you call it, come in?

Is that shirts?

You all got stay cool stickers.

- Yeah, I have that sticker right here.

- How much is the sticker?

- That one's three.

- It's free?

- Three Dollars. - Three,

I was about to say, hell, shit.

- Look, tattoos. - Wow, that's awesome,

my god!

- Yep. - That's awesome.

- There's a unique and individual quality

about each and every single one of you

and that thing that makes you who you are

is fucking incredible.

So don't ever let anyone take it from you,

belittle it in any way or make you feel bad about it.

Because you fucking rock.

And I believe that and I hope you believe it too.

♪ Every generation needs a Steve Irwin

♪ To teach them believing in dreams can ease burdens

♪ To show us we're never too old to keep learning

♪ I can't believe he isn't returning

♪ Cause every generation needs a Steve Irwin

♪ As long as the passion for life can keep burning

♪ The future is still free to be determined ♪

- He slept last night good.

- He slept good.

He had me put him a mattress on the floor.

And he slept on the floor, in the living room.

- You don't even want to know, guess how he got up.

- He crawled up,

he caught ahold to the couch and crawled up.

- She said, you ass is old, Dad.

- OK.

- I can hang it there.

There we go.

Well thank you, everybody, for coming.

- Thank you.

Thank the spirit for the meat of Mr. Ed.

- The meat's amazing.

- Yeah, you like it? - Love it, yeah.

- It's pretty good.

When I saw this all together as an organism

that was, that was a living, breathing thing,

it was like, wow.

You know, God's here, man.

You know, God is here.

And he's in the trees and there's a beautiful,

beautiful Native American prayer, you know,

that says it says

Great Spirit whose voice I hear in the wind.

I come to you as one of your many children.

I ask you for strength, not that I may best my brother

but that I may defeat my greatest enemy, myself.

You know, and that sums it up, brother.

- I see weevils.

We got weevils.

A bunch, a bunch.

My weevils are kicking ass.

Sorry.

Holy shit.

Hey just for your own reference,

take a look through here.